During the last years, a great effort has been dedicated at the development and employment
of diverse approaches for achieving more stress‐tolerant and climate‐flexible crops and …

Soil salinization is an important global issue since marginal salt-affected soils have harmful
consequences in agriculture and ecosystems. This article reviews different sustainable …

Potential for, and limits to, adaptation to environmental changes are critical for resilience and
risk mitigation. The Mediterranean basin is a mosaic of biodiversity‐rich ecosystems long …

Bud-break is an economically and environmentally important process in trees and shrubs
from boreal and temperate latitudes, but its molecular mechanisms are poorly understood …

The changes in the state of the climate have a high impact on perennial fruit crops thus
threatening food availability. Indeed, climatic factors affect several plant aspects, such as …

Metabolomics as a diagnosis tool for plant performance has shown good features for
breeding and crop improvement. Additionally, due to limitations in land area and the …

Synthetic polyploids have been extensively studied for breeding in the last decade.
However, the use of such genotypes at the agronomical level is still limited. Polyploidization …

The identification of drought-tolerant olive tree genotypes has become an urgent
requirement to develop sustainable agriculture in dry lands. However, physiological markers …

Within the context of global warming, long-living plants such as perennial woody species
endure adverse conditions. Among all of the abiotic stresses, drought stress is one of the …

Drought, heat and high irradiance are abiotic stresses that negatively affect plant
development and reduce crop productivity. The confluence of these three factors is common …